Phases of phrases
At the end of the day
when all's said and done
when the fat lady sings
what will be will be
to be fair, to be fair, even if it's not
let's suck it and see, let's suck it and see, let's suck it and see.....
It's sucking me in
the black hole of language
Can't control my tongue
since I was young
been
talking, even thinking in phrasesthat come and go in phases
How free is my mind, how loose is my tongue
how useless is resistance
to the linguistic goose-step
distanced from originality
eradicating the radical
Obey the
new rulessay the new thing
ditch the old phrases
they’ve been phased out
erased out
not all the rage
not good on the page
unhip to the jive
If you’re likin’ it
if you’re lovin’ it
if you’re stayin’ alive
don't slip, keep in step
pep things up
pepper your speech
with a sprinkling of jargon
before you're too far gone
before it sucks you in
the black hole of language
The amazing phases of phrases
Whatever happened to
sayings like ... like ...it's no good
I can't retrieve them, those ancient phrases
they're
over the event horizonthey're in some parallel dimension
like the people who said them
all dead, fled, sped,
brown breadfed to the black swans
on the black lake
in the black hole of language
Good Lord, heavens above
I'm
through the wormhole, David Frost-styleBy Jove
I'm literally by Jove
and he's coming out with things
I haven't heard in years
Cor blimey, coo, even phew, strike a light
For Pete's sake, it's nice to break
the chain of change
the pain of change
Turn back the pages
returning to turns of phrases
before they went to blazes
before they were swallowed by new faces
and followed on to faeces
Before the end of their phases
Jeff Dawson
Sat 7th Mar 2009 15:59
Good stuff, nice change of style and very different kind of poem, good use of words, see you friday mate!